a_painting_the_world_made raze there's a picture of a woman without a name, a daguerreotype photograph from the nineteenth century, the image formed on silver polished with powdered porous rock and ferric oxide, heated with mercury, coloured by hand with dye or oil or paint. a hundred and sixty years of life and exposure have damaged the delicate surface so the areas above and below her face, a face startling in its candid complexity, have come to resemble two swathes of rainbow or cloud, her body, or what there was of it, obscured by the gradual sky she's become a part of, the damage done removing her from time, turning her picture into a painting the world made. 140306 ... feminineeffects pretty and technical. technically pretty? pretty technical? 140307 what's it to you? who go blather from